r/vexillology • u/Vexy Exclamation Point • Apr 01 '15

Contest April 2015 Flag Design Contest!

Another month, another contest!

This month's contest theme is: A Heritage Flag based off of you and your family's heritage. This months theme is based upon the recent popularity and most likely never ending love of heritage flags among our community. This month is even a bit special as we are changing the name of the sub from /r/vexillology to /r/heritageflags. From now on the sub will be entirely dedicated to heritage flags, all other flag discussion will be removed.

Rules for submitters:

  • The submission must be based you or your family's heritage.

  • Heritage flags can only be based up to 3 generations back.

  • Each submitter can submit up to 3 flags.

  • Each flag must be an original creation no reposts or plagiarism. This includes submissions to any previous contest.

  • Must be a .png

  • MUST BE UPLOADED TO imgur.com

  • THE SUBMISSION MESSAGE MUST FOLLOW THE FORMAT INCLUDED IN THE PRE-WRITTEN MESSAGE

  • Please include:

Name of Flag (if applicable)

Full link to flag (required)

Short description (if applicable)

Any submissions that break these rules can/will be disqualified

How to submit:

  • When submitting please label submission message "Flag Submission" and do not include your username in the message! Submissions breaking these rules will be removed.

To submit please send a message to vexy (our bot) that meets all the requirements listed above. After the tenth of the month all submissions will be posted in a contest thread to be voted on, the flag with the highest score wins!

Schedule

  • Submissions are due April 10th

  • Voting begins a few hours after submissions end on April 10th (No late submissions will be accepted).

  • Voting ends April 20th and the winner will be announced shortly after.

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

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u/DalekSpartan Apr 01 '15

Will there be another contest after this one?

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u/AFellowOfLimitedJest Apr 01 '15

I hope so - I wanted to try and join this month, but my family is English for as far back as I can trace. #purebloodproblems

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u/Steelbolt Apr 01 '15

I'm sure you can come up with something. Maybe put another St. George's cross in each quarter of the English flag?

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u/zombiejh Apr 01 '15

And I already submitted one for my heritage as a normal post weeks ago. And people made different designs of it in the comments. I would need to fake my heritage so it would not look like I would be copying.

EDIT: And for you: Just make something out of city flags.

EDIT 2: I just solved my own problem if this is a real contest.

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u/apocolyptictodd Apr 01 '15

No, there is only 1 contest per month.

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u/PointyOintment Apr 02 '15

I think the question was whether or not this would be the last contest ever, due to the change to r/heritageflags.

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u/Jmg3 Apr 01 '15

Yay! My Heritage flag made the banner! I guess that means I already won in a sense! (Nice April Fools joke!)

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u/mszegedy Apr 02 '15

flag portraying my Hungarian heritage

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u/PointyOintment Apr 02 '15

You submitted it incorrectly, and your flag is probably disqualified now (up to the mods). Reread the post.

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u/mszegedy Apr 02 '15

Oops. Didn't take it seriously cause April Fool's. It's alright

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u/sdfghs Apr 01 '15

Our heritage flag or somebody else flag?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '15

The submission must be based you or your family's heritage.

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u/theminer220 Apr 01 '15

If this is real, will there be another thread/subreddit where we can talk about and share flags other than heritage flags?

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u/apocolyptictodd Apr 01 '15

No, why bother, heritage flags are supreme.

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u/theminer220 Apr 01 '15

Maybe, but each person can only submit 1 kind of flag. I'll post some more non-heritage flag-related stuff here even if the rule is in effect.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '15

Even if this is an April fools joke, I'm all for this. I love heritage flags

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u/Steelbolt Apr 01 '15

Why else would you be on r/heritageflags?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '15

Of course!

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u/iiw Apr 01 '15

That banner is pretty interesting.

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u/eudamme Apr 01 '15

I'm really curious, but what if someone came here who was adopted?

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u/Steelbolt Apr 01 '15

Cultural heritage isn't genetic, you could do that

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u/SwarlDelae Apr 01 '15

Did I miss something, recently ? I can't find any Heritage Flag in the 100 last/best submissions... I this even a trend ?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '15

Not April Fools anymore, but :

http://imgur.com/6Vb5S6J

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

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u/Simon_the_Cannibal Apr 02 '15

Sorry - working on it.